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Re:France rules Google must pay news firms for content by samatman on Saturday April 11, 2020 @04:30PM (#22843993)
> the country that was the inspiration for the US independence.

The United States declared independence in 1776, and the storming of the Bastille was in 1789.

I'm pretty sure the arrow of causality runs in the opposite direction from what you describe.

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Re:France rules Google must pay news firms for content by bgorman on Saturday April 11, 2020 @05:15PM (#22844311)
Clearly factually my statement is incorrect. However there certainly was a lot of cross-polination of enlightenment ideas between the early US, France and England.
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